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[Buio DiAngelo]

Name: Sylph/Seraph
Age: physically and mentally in her early 20's but arguably much older thanks to her heritage.
Sex: female/male
Race: Succubus/incubus

Appearance: As a succubus, sylph naturally possesses the ability to changer her appearance at will, with of course the exception if her red hair and eyes, and the small, stunted horns that can sometimes be seen poking out from the crown of her head. Her 'default' appearance as a woman is that of a plain young girl with short hair that only falls past her ears. Contrary to popular belief succubi do not generally look like voluptuous sex goddesses, rather they generally possess an androgynous default look with small hips and a modest bust to say the least. They simply change their appearance to fit their target's desire when it is needed, and a less feminine body structure makes it easier to take on incubus form. As Seraph her features remain mostly the same, only growing a few inches in height and trading the standard body fat percentage of a woman for a slightly more muscular build. her voice becomes appropriately deeper as well. once more however she can change her features as a man in whichever way the situation demands it.

Personality: Sylph is a very stoic young woman who doesn't much care about the world around her. As with all people of her race she is given the choice of whether to identify as a male or female or neither and chooses to identify primarily as a woman, thus a succubus, despite not remembering which gender she was actually born as. As a demon living amongst humans he comes under much scrutiny, and her employment as a prostitute for all tastes does not help the matter, but she is mostly indifferent to it. She lives among humans out of necessity, because there is no home amongst demons for her, but she doesn't crave their attention or acceptance. She knows how to tell people what they want to hear and put on a face they want to see (both figuratively and literally) but at the end of the day she is living simply for the sake of living. She imagines that soon enough (relatively speaking considering she perceives time on a different scale) Bitewind would fall to monsters or plague or war, ephemeral as all mortal creations are, and she would need to move somewhere new to survive. What point would there be to form attachments to people or places that most likely would be gone in a few measly decades. to her, as long as she can continue living in the town, working her craft ad not being directly bothered by anyone, she could not care less what others thought of her behind closed doors. Rather than go only by her given name of Sylph at all times, she adopts the name Seraph whenever she takes on a male body, signifying that she recognizes on some degree that she is not fully 'female' in the sense that humans perceive it. her personality and disposition remains more or less identical regardless of what gender she is though.

Magic/Abilities: As is to be expected from someone of her race, Sylph can change her appearance however she wishes as long as she remains proportionately human (though doing things like changing her skin blue or covering herself in hair are still within the limits of her powers. she simply can't grow or detach limbs for change the size of her body to drastic degrees). She can imitate voices at will by changing her vocal chords and copy any face she's gotten a good look at. As a demon she's a fair bit stronger than her typically slender frame would lead one to believe but not to any superhuman degree. As a demon she can cast some basic black magic, specifically he can increase her 'charm' in order to make her voice seem more persuasive, and she can give shadows physical substance and control them that way, or even craft small objects out of them (such as lock-picks and small daggers) or envelop herself in them to disappear from sight in dark places. As a demon she does ages very slowly and can not succumb to the same diseases that afflict humans, but she is not immortal, physical injuries will have the same effect on her as with humans. She can mend broken bones and close wounds with her shape shifting but this is not a perfect solution and only serves to make her slightly more durable rather than outright invincible. A decapitation or severe blow to the cranium is still fully lethal and a wound to the heart usually will be as well unless it is minor and attended to by a healer quickly. She has a higher resistance to poisons than humans but it not completely immune to them.
Weakness: as stated, she isn't immortal, and doesn't benefit from the great physical or magical protection that most other demon races do, also, she is unable to change the colour of her hair or eyes through shape shifting, nor can she ever get rid of her horns (though these can be covered up by making her hair longer). Without use of dyes and eye contacts it is very hard for her to hide the fact that she is a succubus to anyone who knows of these telltale signs. she also isn't overly proficient with weapons other than daggers and the offensive capabilities of her magic are limited. As a demon she is weak to substances like silver or purified water. Mixing silver powder in her food or drink is one of the only but most effective ways to poison her and direct contact with any such substance will make her unable to use magic and revert to her default male or female appearance if she is shifted.

Background/History: Succubi and Incubi are an old race of demons both fathered and mothered by one of the old dark lords Asmodeus. They are demons of lust and debauchery, tasked with poisoning the hearts and souls of mankind with carnal pleasures and corrupting them, turning them onto the path of evil. At least, they were. The world of demons has always been in chaos and turmoil, and when the old lords fell, there was no room for their children to remain. The children of Amadeus were either hunted down or forced into exile. Left to wander the land in their immortal bodies without purpose or homeland, most going their separate ways. Sylph was only an infant when this happened so she has no memory of anything before the exile. Her entire life had been spent wandering from place to place without much purpose other than to survive. The first century or so was spent with her mother,the only other succubus she knew, who taught her the basics of how to use her abilities, how succubi like them required not only food and drink to survive, but also to feed on the lust inside the hearts of humans. One day, however, she woke up to find that her mother had left her. She had become a woman after all and a succubus could not be asked to compete for attention with a younger member of her race. Sylph had been taught who to survive as a succubus amongst humans, and now it was up to her to do just that. Her life has not been an easy one of course. It would never take more than a few years before some hollier-than-thou clergyman or disgruntled group of housewives and husbands decided that a demon was too dangerous to let live within their folds. she survived witch hunts and assassination attempts through poison and blade alike, and every time she simply took up her possessions without argument and left whatever establishment she had been lodged in so far. The proprietor of the '5 heavens' brothel is only the most recent in a long line of human businessmen seeking to capitalize on a piece of merchandise that could potentially fit any demand from any customer. Interestingly enough however she has noted that he himself never attempted to make use of her services. While she wouldn't go so far as to call him a friend, she can appreciate a human who separates pleasure from business even when they are in the business of pleasure. And the accommodations she and he other girls at the brothel receive are among the better she has observed in her lifetime as a prostitute.

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[Buio DiAngelo]

Name: Mashiro Takeda
Nickname/Alias: King of Blades
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Age Appearance: 23
Sexuality: Unimportant

Village: |Shin'ogakure
Birthplace: Kirigakure
Organization: QL

Clan/Bloodline: Takeda weapon masters

Rank: Operative

Chakra Nature: Water/lightning

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Personality: Mashiro (or "Maa-kun" as he prefers to be called) is a pretty laid back guy for a shinobi. Part of the reason why he left home was because he couldn't stand his father's strict, morose, nature and unquestioning loyalty to the status quo, so he tries to live life according to what he chooses to believe is right, not what people tell him is right. He is flirty with women, friendly with guys, hates paperwork and will skip out on doing boring jobs whenever possible. Despite that he's still unquestionably loyal to the Utsurokage, whom he likes to consider a personal friend and has numerous times been found having beaten up people who were badmouthing the leader behind his back, not much caring for he consequences that befall him after (that are, admittedly, pretty light considering his position). It's not only his skill, but this fierce loyalty towards people he considers his friends that had him be placed as one of the kage's personal operatives. Despite his somewhat whimsical nature though he is still a ninja; he can get strikingly cold and emotionless when the time calls for it and will kill both friends and family without hesitation if it is to serve the Utsurokage. This isn't to say that his friendly persona is just a farce, but rather that simply liking someone and their character will not stop him from killing them or make him hesitate if their death is necessary to further the causes he believes in.

History: Mashiro Takeda was born as the second son of the famed Kirigakure Takeda Clan's main branch, two minutes and thirty seven seconds after his elder brother Kentaro. In every incarnation of the 7 Swordsmen of the mist there had been at least one Takeda within their ranks, and they prided themselves on not only having the best weapon-based bukijutsu and ninjutsu techniques in Kirigakure, but the entire ninja world (at they claimed it anyways).

While Mashiro was technically the second son, his brother had been cursed with a weak body, specifically he had pathetically weak lungs that often caused him to be overcome by coughing fits whenever he was forced into any amount of intensive physical labour. In other words he was not only practically useless as a ninja, he was a shame as an heir to a clan specializing in bukijutsu. As a result Mashiro, who had the misfortune of being born with great talent, was made to pick up his elder brother's mantle and trained to succeed their father as leader of the Takeda clan. Mashiro always hated the daily regiments, the endless training from childhood, the demand for absolute perfection from him as the heir who would inherit the main branch's techniques. Not only that but he hated Kirigakure as well. A dark, gloomy, misty village encased by mountains where the sun never shined. The mist was always too thick for any ray of light to pierce and so the village existed in a perpetual twilight. He longed for freedom, for action, for adventure, for a world where he was free to chose his own fate, not be constrained by selfish parents and mentors who wanted to map out his life for him, all for their own selfish pride and sense of tradition.

Still, he bore with it. Still, he trained diligently, learned their techniques, and let himself be moulded into the perfect little soldier, all for his brother. Kentaro was weak of body and meek of character. He was a soft and kind boy by nature, but easy to push around and put down. The worst offender was the boys' father, so disgusted was he with his eldest son who would amount to nothing but a failure as an heir and a stain on their proud clan. on good days the man ignored Kentaro's very existence, on bad ones he constantly reminded the poor boy that he was a shame onto the clan and that all would have been better had he simply never been born. Mashiro knew that leaving would mean throwing Kentaro into a den of wolves where he would have no chance of escape, so he stayed and put up with it, swearing to be a protector for his twin, and the perfect heir that his father wanted so that he would stop antagonizing his eldest son.

That all came to a close near the boy's 18th birthday however. Three generations before them, Kirigakure had obtained a pair of Hyuuga eyes from a conflict between some of their operatives and a band of konoha spies. One of those eyes was given to the head of the Takeda clan as it would greatly increase the efficiency of their weapon skills. Since then it had become standard practice for the next heir to inherit the byakugan from his father at 18 years old so he could be trained in its use before formally assuming the role of clan head. While Mashiro had always been trained to work as functional head and strongest warrior in their clan, Kentaro was still the eldest son and the position of clan head should still have gone to him, even if in title only. The boys had always assumed that they would be able to lead their clan together, Mashiro handling the fighting, training and field leadership, while kentaro took care of things like paperwork, finances, clan politics and other aspects that generally required a more subtle approach. It was declared, however, that upon the boys' 18th birthday, Mashiro would be the one to inherit the Byakugan, not his brother. As the byakugan had become more than just a doujutsu, but a very symbol of the clan's leadership, this meant that Kentaro was being officially stricken from the family's line of succession. He had lost all worth to the clan, even as a figurehead leader. Mashiro argued against this decision passionately, showing the first sign of open rebellion against his father's judgment in years, but all his complaints were shut down without question. His father's decree was absolute. Mashiro bitterly accepted the situation, already plotting machinations of overthrowing his father's mandates and decrees once he officially became head, not willing to let his brother suffer in the shadows any longer, but fate had other plans in store for him.

That night Mashiro woke up to the blade of an assassin pressed against his throat. Moving reflexively he grabbed the assailant's arm and pulled him to the floor with him, rolling around and attempting to lock him in a submission hold and wrest the kunai from his hands. While the assassin was caught off guard by Mashiro's sudden awakening, he was not easily pinned down and slipped out of mashiro's grips time and again, repeatedly attempting to stab and slash at him as the two struggled for control of the blade. Eventually Mashiro and his attacker found themselves to their feet, pacing around each other in the pitch blackness of his room and quickly resumed their fight, the kunai still initially in the assassin's hands.

the attacker was skillful, seeming to know all of mashiro's movements before he made them, and mashiro recognized a few of his family's techniques in the grapples and attacks of his assassin, doubtlessly he was an assassin of one the branch families that was secretly malcontent with the main branch's rule. Mashiro's father had warned him about such eventualities in the past and the red haired heir had no intention of letting those greedy old men end his life. Fuelled by his anger he used the skills that had been hammered into his body since early childhood to wrest the knife from his assailant and plunge it in his gut before kicking him through the sliding screen door that led out onto the outside walkway. Mashiro chased after the assailant, intent on finishing the job, but stopped when he saw not a cloaked branch member, but his very own brother bleeding in the dirt. When he demanded explanation, Kentaro came clean about the hatred that he had been harbouring towards his younger brother for years. Hatred born of jealousy and envy, out of shame a always having to be protected as a weakling, out of desire for his father's approval that would ever be received as long as the 'shining son' mashiro was there for kentaro to be compared to. Years worth of pent up loathing spilled out of kentaro as he brought himself up to his feet and pulled the knife out of his gut, intent on using it to continue the fight. The declaration of mashiro as the inheritor of the Byakugan had been the last straw and he was determined to prove his worth as an heir by forcefully taking the position from Mashiro, or die trying.

Tearfully, mashiro slipped into a blank haze. he couldn't take what was going on, or understand any of it. The revelation of his brother's loathing, the fact that the person he tried to protect for years was now coming at him filled with killing intent. It was more out of empty instinct than true desire to protect himself that mashiro dodged kentaro's following thrust, grabbed his wrist, twisted it behind his back, forced the knife out of kentaro's hands, grabbed it himself and the spun around kentaro to slash his throat open like his father had taught him to do a million times before. The entire motion had been executed so fluidly and instinctively that Mashiro himself didn't even fully realize he was doing it until his brother's body fell to the floor.

Dropping the kunai, mashiro fell to his knees and cradled his brother's head, crying over him and repeatedly asking why in a low voice, more cursing the twisted fate that had led to this than really demanding any sort of explanation from his brother.

While Kentaro's words were gurgled and choked thanks to the blood now flooding down his esophagus, mashiro clearly heard his brother's dying statement: 'I hate you'.

After the incident, Kentaro's body was taken away and no one at the estate spoke of the attempted murder that left the eldest son dead, no one cared. They had all wished that kentaro would just disappear for a long time and now they were free to pretend he didn't exist, not even bothering to give him a proper funeral or telling Mashiro where they'd put his body.

A few days later Kentaro, not having spoken three full sentences since the incident, turned eighteen and had the byakugan implanted into his left eye, robbing it of sight until he learned to activate the doujutsu.

It was another week for him to recover from the surgery, then a month to learn to activate the byakugan. Then a day for him to challenge his father to a duel, then an instant to cut the old bastard down where he stood in cold blooded revenge for what had happened to kentaro. All without Mashiro ever uttering a single word.

After that Mashiro left his clan, left kirigakure, cut down anyone who tried to come after him with use of his family's weapon scrolls which he'd stolen upon leaving, and made his way to freedom. lucky for him this was just about the same time that the villages started being assaulted from the then unknown enemy so the village did not have the luxury to send out the appropriate amount of forces to hunt down one rogue nin.

The next three years were spent relatively peacefully for mashiro. While the land was in turmoil, he managed to travel it as he saw fit, often times having no one but his blade for company. Finally he got to saw wide open fields, finally he got to see clear blue skies, finally he could feel the sun's warm rays on his skin. At first it all still left him feeling cold and empty, but he knew he had to more on, to live the life he wanted, in honour of his brother who couldn't. Eventually he learned to smile again, and vowed to follow his own path and live his life to the fullest.

two years ago, however, he was approached by an agent of the former adviser to the Mizukage, the one that had disappeared mysteriously years prior. The agent, a skilled shinobi, engaged him in combat and, for the first time in a long time, showed Mashiro that there were still people out there capable of matching his skills and his byakugan. The match ended in a draw as neither opponent truly sought to kill the other and the agent made it know to mashiro that the adviser requested his audience. Respecting the agent's skill and really having nowhere better to go, mashiro decided to indulge the request and went with the agent to meet with the former adviser of Kirigakure. This was when he was first introduced to the newly proclaimed Utsurokage. He didn't know why the young man reminded him so much of his older brother, he neither looked or sounded like him, and he didn't seem to have the same personality even. Still, Mashiro knew that this was someone who hadn't been yet shown the truly ugly side of this world, and he felt like he wanted to protect that kid from those who would want to take advantage of that. When the agent invited him into Qui Languidis to serve under the Utsurokage, it didn't take much convincing for Mashiro to accept, and within a year he had proven himself both loyal and skillful enough to be entrusted with the position of being the Utsurokage's personal Operative and bodyguard.

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Weapons/Items:

Weapons

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Name of Weapon or Item: Scroll of Muramasa

Description: The scroll of muramasa is a long, thin, nearly indestructible ninja summoning scroll that is bound with three powerful sealing tags that make it impossible to open without use of a Takeda's chakra. As stated the scroll itself is nigh-on indestructible, at least by ordinary means, seamlessly resisting both fire and blades, and its dimensions roughly resemble those of a straight sword so Mashiro frequently uses it as his primary weapon during combat, especially if he feels that the use of lethal force isn't required. It more or less devolves into a simple stick for him to harmlessly beat over people's heads most of the time, but it can potentially break bones if he swings it hard enough. It is, though, of course just a blunt weapon so trying to cut anything through it is impossible and, unlike most of mashiro's weapons, it is entirely incapable of channelling chakra in it's sealed form. He has a sheath for the scroll so he can keep it slung behind his back when it's not in use

Appearance: just a long, thin, scroll with red ends and 3 sealing tags wrapped around it. were it not for the tags it would probably look completely unremarkable.

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Name of Weapon or Item: The Completely Regular Katana of No Significant Importance

Description: The C.R.K.N.S.I. (pronounced 'Sir Kensee'), is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin; just a regular katana that mashiro picked up along his travels one day and has been using ever since. It has no special properties what-so-ever but is still, as swords tend to be, very good at cutting things. He keeps it sheathed at his right side when not using it to cut things up (and nothing else).

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Name of Weapon or Item: Ryu Shini No Yari (dragon slaying spear)

Description: One of Mashiro's four summoned Tamashī shīru buki (sealed soul weapons), Ryu Shini no Yari is a strong lightning release weapon that constantly demands that he use Kaminari denryū at all times. The Spear is possessed by the soul of a proud dragon that can be seen coiling as a spectral serpent around Mashiro's right arm when it has been fed enough electricity. While Kaminari Denryu would usually entail that whatever amount of lightning is stored inside a weapon be discharged the second it comes into contact with any object or person it touches, the spear will hungrily hoard all of the electricity that Mashiro feeds it until it is full. at that point mashiro can execute a devastating thrust called Sora yaketsuku yōna tsume (Sky Searing Claw) that will release all the electricity in a straight-flying bolt of lightning that can easily pierce through several layers of rock. The attack, while powerful, is also debilitating, Mashiro can only use it once per day because of how much chakra needs to be consumed in order to create the necessary amount of electricity to satisfy the spear. If Mashiro tires to grasp Ryu Shini no Yari without having Kaminari Denryu activated the spear will deliver a painful electrical shock in protest until it is dropped, at which point it will by its own will return to where it was summoned from.

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Name of Weapon or Item: Sen bōfūu (One Thousand Rainstorms)

Description: The Second Tamashī shīru buki in Mashiro's possession, this one holding the spirit of a defeated Siren. Despite its fancy appearance the Sen Bofuu is actually one of the more normal summoned weapons in Mashiro's Arsenal. If mashiro uses a weapons scroll to summon a normal quiver of arrows to fire from the bow, then he can use Sen Bofuu like a completely normal weapon. The Bow's special ability comes from the fact that it doesn't actually 'need' arrows to function. If the string is pulled back without an arrow being notched, the bow will pull out a large amount of the users chakra to create an arrow made completely out of water. Mashiro, thanks to his already water-inclined chakra nature, can create up to 4 of these arrows before having his chakra reserves completely drained. The arrows allow him to do a variety of jutsu depending on how they are fired (the jutsu are listed bellow). It should be noted that these arrows can all have the lightning element moulded into them for extra power, but this causes them to cost double the amount of chakra (meaning he can only create a maximum of 2 lightning/water arrows when starting at full strength)

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Name of Weapon or Item: Kuroi otome no kami (black maiden's hair)

Description: Third of Mashiro's Tamashi Shiru Buki, special in that hey are not only the weapons that defeated the monster whose soul now inhabits them, they were actually modified with part of the demon's body after the soul was sealed in them. Originally they were a pair of gloves with steel ninja wires wrapped around them that the user could control by moulding their chakra into them. The beast they killed was a thousand year old jorogumo who used powerful sound-based genjutsu to entrap and devour countless prey. the Kuroi Otome no Kami gained its namesake when they cut off the jorogumo's own hair off her corpse and infused it into the metal wires, turning them jet black and giving them some of the monster's properties. The weapon is naturally inclined towards wind-release type jutsu, which means that Mashiro is still incapable of using most of its techniques beyond simply using them to entrap, strangulate and dismember enemies like typical ninja wire gloves. The one specialized Jutsu he as mastered with the weapon however is "Yume no ryōiki: Muon bochi" (Realm of dreams: Soundless Graveyard) in which he uses the strings to set up a barrier with a 40 meter radius of himself. Anyone attempting to enter or leave the area while the jutsu is active (including Mashiro, though he does possess the ability to cancel the jutsu at will) will be ensnared by the diamond-hard strings and strangled to death. The strings forming the barrier also negate any sound created within them, even sounds that can be heard in extremely quiet places such as ones own heartbeat are muted within the space, something that can prove to be extremely disorienting to people who are not accustomed to the jutsu. Mashiro tends to combine this jutsu with his Gyokusai no senjō jutsus for maximum field control. Interestingly, this is the only one of Mashiro's Tamashi Shiru buki that does not drain his chakra to a drastic degree, though this is primarily because he has no idea how to tap into its true power, being unable to use Fuuton jutsu, as a result it is generally perceived as his weakest weapon as well.

Appearance: please ignore the guy in the picture.

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Name of Weapon or Item: Muramasa no Tsurugi (Sword of Muramasa)

Description: The single most feared Tamashi Shiru Buki in the Takeda's possession, entrusted only to members of the main branch. The sword itself war crafted and used by Muramasa 'The Mad Demon Smith' Takeda and was reputed to be his sharpest and most evil weapon. Even three hundred years after his death, few weapon smiths can claim to create swords of equal quality to those Muramasa created, however Muramasa had an tendency of creating evil weapons possessed by demons and monsters who wished nothing more than to cause destruction and mayhem. He was the man who created the first few Tamashi Shiru Buki and created the technique with which one could seal the essence of a defeated monster inside a weapon, before he rebelled against the clan, though all of his creations have since been destroyed for fear that they would drive others to his madness. Few Takeda do not know the tale of Muramasa's rebellion, how he left his clan in order to find a way to the land of devils so he could learn from them how to create the ultimate weapon and came back several years later, driven to utter madness and slaughtering all who stood before him. His sadistic blood lust only reached an end when he caught his reflection in a mirror and, cackling like the madman he was, proceeded to cut off his own head. The Takeda, decimated from his assault, feared that he would return from the dead as an even greater monster and proceeded to use his very own technique in order to seal his soul into the blade that he had used. Ever since then, the Muramasa no Tsurugi has become the Takeda's most forbidden weapon, kept safe within the Scroll of Muramasa that only a true Takeda can open. Only main branch members are allowed to know the scroll's location and it has only been used by clan heads in the past, and on rare occasion. Holding the sword envelops the user in Muramasa's aura (which looks somewhat similar to a jinchuriki's tailed cloaks) and grants them nearly unlimited chakra, boosting their speed and strength to superhuman degrees comparable to opening the gate of life. The blade's evil makes it impossible for them to distinguish between friend and foe however, demanding death and carnage without prejudice. While the blade itself possesses nearly unlimited chakra reserves or the user to draw upon, it at the same time hungrily eats up the user's chakra with each passing second. If it completely depletes its wielder's chakra reserves before the user manage to kill anyone, the blade will force its wielder to kill himself before returning to its scroll. There is a fail safe written in the scroll that summons the blade back inside it once it has depleted its user's chakra to prevent Muramasa from possessing the wielder fully. The one time that Mashiro used it he only lasted 10 seconds before his chakra was completely drained and the sword was summoned back to the scroll. He only woke up 3 days later and has never dared summon the weapon again, though he always keeps the scroll on him as to prevent it from falling in the wrong hands.

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Items

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(hanging horizontally at his lower back)
- 3 Tamashi shiru buki scrolls (you already know where he keeps the muramasa scroll)

(wrapped around his waist)

- 1 Spear x1 Ninja scroll

- 1 Quarterstaf x1 ninja scroll

- 1 Kusarigama x1 ninja scroll

- 1 Fuma Shuriken x1 ninja scroll

- 2 Kunai x5 ninja scrolls

- 2 Kunai x15 ninja scrolls

- 4 Shuriken x15 ninja scrolls

- 1 Arrow Quiver x1 ninja scroll (the quiver holds 50 arrows)

(one under each sleeve)
- 1 katana x1 ninja scroll (right sleeve, in case something happens to the CRKNSI)

- 1 Ninjato x1 ninja scroll (left sleeve, for tight spaces or in case he needs something to serve as a Main Gauche)

(one at the back of each calf)
- 2 retractable kunai (hidden blade for kicking)

(in a small pouch strapped to his thigh)
- 2 kunai
- 5 shuriken

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Special Traits
Above average strength and stamina: While nin are a fair deal in better physical shape than regular people, being capable of running almost indefinitely and jumping several stories with the aid of chakra, Mashiro did not have to concern himself with learning a great variety of justu during his training, most of his techniques revolving around using scrolls to summon different weapons. Instead his training revolved almost entirely on physical conditioning and proficiency with nearly all kinds of known weaponry, as a result his body's base physical traits surpass most other nins' taijutsu specialists being the only ones capable of matching him in brute strength, speed and stamina when unaided by chakra. He pays for this, however, in having below average seal weaving speed and slightly sloppier chakra manipulation, making it harder for him to fend off genjutsu.

Enhanced Genjutsu Resistance: While his sloppy chakra manipulation makes it difficult for him to break out of genjutsu, his byakugan grants him teh advantage of being able to see past most sensory genjutsu with relative ease. As a result he shares a hyuga's near invulnerability to lower-tier genjutsu that rely nearly completely on the target not being aware that they are under the effects of an illusion to be effective. Even if he can not break from the effects of a genjutsu, he can usually use his byakugan to work around the effects unless the genjutsu user is skillful enough to also fool the activated byakugan's enhanced, 360 perception of both physical objects and chakra currents around the user.

Kekkei Genkai:

Name of Kekkei Genkai: Byakugan
Clan: Hyuga (originally)
Description: Byakugan on Narutopedia.

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Jutsu:

Body Replacement Technique

Water Clone Technique (only one at a time, and only for a short while. Used more as a distraction during specific situations than as a skill that is frequently found in his combat tactics)

Name of Technique: Raiton: Kaminari denryū (lightning release: Lightning current)
Type of Jutsu: ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Requires Physical contact
Nature Type: Lightning
Handseals:Ox, Monkey, Rabbit (Mashiro is skilled enough to not require any hand seals to activate the technique, but weaving hand seals allows him to start with a stringer current, rather than needing to build it up from scratch by pumping chakra into the technique)
Description: an incredibly basic lightning release technique that turns the chakra emitted by the user's hands into an electric current. The intensity of the current is dependent entirely on how much chakra one channels into their own hands. The flow of chakra doesn't need to be maintained,however, as the electricity is incapable of being discharged unless the user's hands come into contact with something or someone, meaning an electrical charge will remain contained within the user's palms indefinitely until the user discharges it. this technique can thus potentially be used to burn up your entire reserve of chakra to deliver a potentially fatal shock, or simply be used as a ninja joy buzzer when you go to shake someone's hand. By far and large, however, the most common usage of this technique as far as Mashiro is concerned is to use it in conjunction with one of his weapons in a style similar to the Chidori Blade technique, i much weaker by comparison. Using Kaminari Denryu while he is holding a weapon allows him to extend the current to the weapon itself, granting it the capacity to stun or numb opponents on contact by discharging electricity into whichever part of them, their equipment, or attire the weapon connects with. The down side is that it is a single-use skill, the entirety of the stored electricity in the weapon will be discharged on impact, even if the skill is still active afterwards, the charge will need to be accumulated again my expending more chakra before the weapon can do any significant lightning-based damage again, making it impossible to combo lightning-charged strikes without also using multiple weapons. The skill can als be used to imitate the effects of a defibrillator on someone suffering from cardiac arrest.
Weakness: The fact that the current must be charged up over a short period of time and can't be sustained, the fact that all of the charged electricity is discharged upon contact, regardless of the user's intent, and the fact that it is possible for the user to shock even themselves if they inadvertently touch a part of their own body before discharging.

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Name of Technique: Suiton - Gyokusai no senjō: Sen'un (Water release - Battlefield of Honourable Deaths: fog of war)
Type of Jutsu: ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: 30 meters
Nature Type: Water
Handseals: snake, rabbit, dog, snake, monkey,
Description: this jutsu allows Mashiro to expel a thick mist from his body that falls down to the ground around him, sitting two feet deep over an area of approximately 30 meters around him. Anyone besides mashiro who makes contact with the mist will start having their chakra siphoned out of their body from contact with the mist. The rate of draining isn't so drastic as to deplete anyone's stores of chakra within a short time frame, and the effect can be resisted depending on one's own chakra control. Ultimately the goal of the technique, like all who fit under the Gyokusai no Senjo banner, is to create a 'level' playing field for swordsmen to clash blades. The chakra draining effect is used not so much as a direct offensive as it is to prevent ninja from relying on ninjutsu and genjutsu, either because of the siphoning effect directly, or because they are too preoccupied with keeping their chakra from being sucked out to properly mould it into complex techniques. This means that they are forced to rely more on their taijutsu and bukijutsu techniques, where Takeda ninja excel.
Weakness: The Mist only hangs around the ground, so enemies who retreat to the trees or other elevated areas will be unaffected by it. The mist can also be blown away by strong wind release techniques. It will eventually creep back over the area it is meant to cover but this process is slow so fuuton specialists can keep the mist at bay with relative ease. The draining of chakra is at a moderate rate so skilled enough shinobi (A rank and up) can fight its influence while suffering only minor or no penalties to their ninjustu and genjutsu usage. People with abnormally large chakra reserves like jinchuriki usually don't even need to worry about it unless the battle drags on for long. The 30 meter range, while not exactly 'small' is nothing near inescapable for most ninja, making the technique hard to properly use unless mashiro is in a closed area where escape is difficult.

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Name of Technique: Gyokusai no senjō: Mugen no tan'itsu kōshi tatakai (Battlefield of Honourable Death: Infinite Single Strike Battle)
Type of Jutsu:ninbukijutsu
Rank: A
Range: 25 meters
Nature Type: none
Handseals: Tiger, Snake, Monkey, Boar, Ram
Description: Using the Mugen scroll will summon dozens of identical katana who will fly high into the sky and then fall back down and impale themselves into the ground within a 25 meter radius of Mashiro (missing anyone and everyone who might be in that radius and impaling the ground harmlessly). Any weapon other than those katana found within this area will suddenly have its weight increased tenfold, making it nearly unusable, this includes mashiro's own weapons, and weapons who are thrown into the field (such as shuriken, senbon or kunai) from outside . While in the field Mashiro and his opponents will be forced to use only the swords themselves to fight. The catch is that the swords disappear into dust immediately after having been swung or thrust once, regardless of whether they hit something or not, they also disappear if they leave their user's hands after having been picked up, making it impossible to throw them. This is where the technique gets its name, both mashiro and his opponents are forced to read their opponent's moves and attack cautiously as they only have one shot at attacking before they are disarmed and need to pick up a new sword. It first appears as if the amount of swords summoned is finite, but in truth the field will continue creating more and more swords each time one is destroyed until either mashiro runs out of chakra, cancels the technique, dies, or the mugen scroll is destroyed (mashiro tends to combine this technique with Suiton - Gyokusai no senjō: Sen'un to hide the scroll's location on the ground for exactly this reason).
Weakness: this is a ninbukijustu a technique that combines ninjutsu and weapon techniques. As a result it requires chakra and hand seals to initiate, simply trying to activate the scroll without performing the seals first is useless. It also requires chakra to maintain in the way that each time a sword is destroyed, another one appears in the field, summoned by the scroll. This costs mashiro a small amount of chakra each time, which can become substantially draining if the battle lasts for too long. Like Suiton - Gyokusai no senjō: Sen'un, the field is not inescapable in any way (even combined with Yume no ryōiki: Muon bochi, they still have a 15 meter radius between this jutsu's maximum range and the limits of the wire barrier), the field does, however, extend several meters above the ground, so even if opponents retreat into the trees, their weapons will still be weighed down within the field. It can't be used in spaces where the ceiling is too low for the swords to fly.

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Name of Technique: Mōretsuna kijo no jutsu - Triton no Yari (Furious Siren Technique - Triton's spear)
Type of Jutsu: Sen bōfūu ninjutsu
Rank: B (A)
Range: 10-60 Meters
Nature Type: Water
Handseals: none, done with a bow
Description: The simplest of Sen bōfūu's water arrow techniques, Mashiro aims at a target in front of him and release the arrow, in flight it turns into a spiralling torrent of water which drills through and washes away anything in its path, similar in destructive force to the Water Dragon Bullet Technique. A the expense of more chakra, mashiro can guide the torrent in its flight, but his amount of control is limited due to how fast it travels, making it impossible for him to make it change course sharply. The name this technique takes on if he fires more than one arrow simultaneously is Mōretsuna kijo no jutsu - Tritonno teikoku suiryoku (Furious Siren Technique - Triton's Imperial Thrust) in which more vortexes are created with every arrow shot.
Weakness: Costs a quarter of his chakra, half if he imbues it with lightning element. unusable unless he has the Sen bōfūu bow equipped. travels fast but is easy to dodge if seen coming

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Name of Technique: Mōretsuna kijo no jutsu - Ningyo no namida (Furious Siren Technique - Mermaid's Tears)
Type of Jutsu: Sen bōfūu ninjutsu
Rank: B (A)
Range: 1-15 meters
Nature Type: Water
Handseals: none, done with a bow
Description: This happens when Mashiro shoots Sen Bofuu's water arrow straight up. It flies into the sky and then falls back down in the form of hundreds of senbon shaped raindrops that will shoot through/impale anything surrounding mashiro, achieving an effect similar to a powered-up version of the Senbon Shower technique, especially if the rain is empowered by lightning, making them capable of piercing through almost any shield or armour. The name this technique gains when more than one arrow is shot simultaneously is Mōretsuna kijo no jutsu - Ningyo no Kanashimi (Furious Siren Technique - Mermaid's Sorrow) in which the radius increases by 5 meters with every arrow shot.
Weakness: Costs a quarter of his chakra, half if he imbues it with lightning element. Mashiro is not immune to the deadly rain senbon and must stand perfectly still as they fall around him, lest he be impaled as well. this can leave him very vulnerable to someone attacking him from outside the 15 meter range of the death rain.

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Name of Technique: Mōretsuna kijo no jutsu - Undine no bēru (Furious Siren technique - Veil of the Undine)
Type of Jutsu: Sen bōfūu ninjutsu
Rank: C (B)
Range: 2 meters (can wash away items and people as far back as 5 meters)
Nature Type: Water
Handseals: none, done with a bow
Description: When Mashiro shoots an arrow into the ground, it comes back up as a small tidal wave-like 10 ft high wall of water. This is mostly a defensive jutsu, used to block incoming attacks and wash away enemies. It can still, however, deal damage by electrocuting enemies if the lightning element is moulded into the arrow. When more than one arrow is fired simultaneously this technique is called Mōretsuna kijo no jutsu - Undine no Tate (Furious Siren technique - Shield of the Undine) and the width of the wave multiplies proportionally to the amount of arrows shot.
Weakness: Costs a quarter of his chakra, half if he imbues it with lightning element. very limited offensive capabilities.

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Name of Technique: Takeda Bukijutsu - Tonde Kunai no kabe (Takeda Weapon Technique - Wall of Flying Kunai)
Type of Jutsu: Bukijutsu
Rank: C
Range: about 10 feet
Nature Type: none
Handseals: none
Description: a simple Bukijutsu in which Mashiro opens a multiple kunai weapon scroll vertically towards his enemies,, activating it and making all the contained kunai fly towards them at once.
Weakness: The range is pretty limited and the attack has no frills other than making a lot of weapons fly at an opponent all at once. Unless they are caught off guard by it sufficiently skilled ninja should have no problem dodging or blocking the technique


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Name of Technique: Takeda Bukijutsu - Shuriken senpū ( Takeda Weapon Technique - Shuriken Whirlwind)
Type of Jutsu: Bukijutsu
Rank: C
Range: about 10 feet
Nature Type: none
Handseals: none
Description: a basic bukijutsu technique in which Mashiro takes a shuriken scroll in each hand and spins on himself as he opens them, launching a total of 30 shuriken at enemies all around him.
Weakness: The range is pretty limited and the attack has no frills other than making a lot of weapons fly at an opponent all at once. Unless they are caught off guard by it sufficiently skilled ninja should have no problem dodging or blocking the technique

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Name of Technique: Takeda Bukijutsu - Hari no wana (Takeda Weapon Technique - Needle Trap)
Type of Jutsu: Bukijutsu
Rank: C
Range: 4 feet across and about 8 feet high
Nature Type: none
Handseals: none
Description: By activating Kunai weapon scrolls he has set on the ground, Mashiro can impale unsuspecting enemies with a flying barrage of kunai from bellow.
Weakness: The technique is seriously almost entirely reliant on the element of surprise to be effective. Either that or mashiro has to somehow put down the scrolls beforehand and then force his enemies to get over them in some way and activate the scrolls before they can react. Even if caught off guard A or S rank ninja should easily be swift enough to dodge the trap with minor or no injuries.

Summons

Name:
Species:
Age: (If applicable)
Size: (Small, medium, large, colossal. The size and strength dictate the chakra cost.)
Unique Traits: (Just like the one for you character. This can mean flight for birds, or swimming for fish.)
Jutsu:
History: (Optional)

Other: All of the Sealed Soul Weapons besides Muramasa no Tsurugi were originally just normal weapons used by great Takeda ninja who eventually went on to defeat great demons (not tailed beasts) and monsters in combat and then had the souls of those beasts sealed inside the same weapons used to kill them. The Takeda have actually created about 20 Tamashi Shiru Buki of varying power levels throughout history, the 4 in Mashiro's possession were simply the ones whose location he knew of and could get to before he had to run away.

[Buio DiAngelo]

Character Theme - Never Wanted to Dance

Name - Elizabeth Whiterock/ Lisa Smith
Age - 28 (at time of death which was nearly a century ago now)
Race - Human Revenant
Gender - Female
Sexuality - depends on the day, typically prefers women

Allegiance - House Grey (ish)

Personality - Elizabeth was originally a very studious and diligent girl who enjoyed the luxury of simple pleasures daily, being from a noble family and never having had to work for herself before. And then she died. funny how that will change your outlook on life. Now she's more or less an incorrigibly promiscuous flirt, taking full advantage of her eternally young and pretty (if unsettlingly cold) body to nab herself whatever cute thing catches her eye, be it for feeding purposes or otherwise. She doesn't seem to take very much seriously or care for anyone other than herself though this comes off as more of a byproduct of her vendetta against the queen than any inherent selfishness. She has lived too long to value idealism anymore and will go to any lengths to drag down Queen Esmeralda to the deepest pits of the underworld.

History - During childhood, was close acquaintances with the three Barrett princesses as they grew up, developing an especially close bond with Margaret. When the later was hanged, Elizabeth requested an audience with the new 'queen' and protested her clear insanity and thirst for power, which had the predictable outcome of getting her hanged as well. For most people this is the end, as it should be, but a powerful fae (though some would rather call it a demon for how corrupted it was in its desires) was witness to her execution and attracted to her by the deep hatred she felt in her dying moments. As her immortal soul still clung to the location of her murder after the fact, the fae contacted it and proposed a deal. A chance at revenge. In return for allowing the fae to feast upon her soul, the fae would separate her conscience from it and return it to her body, animating it through its otherworldly magics. she accepted the deal and, subsequently, was brought back as a creature called a revenant or 'one that returns'. With her own two hands she severed the very rope that her body had been hanging from for the last 12 hours (her neck still carries the rope marks to this day). The fae told her what she now was, and how she would need to feast on the souls of humans from hence forth if she wanted to keep the magics that animated her running. it then disappeared into the void, her soul in its possession, never to be heard from again.

After feeding for the first time and taking a few days to get used to her new from Elizabeth stormed Esmeralda's castle, intending on using her new found strength and magical powers to take revenge on the crazed bitch who'd murdered both her and her beloved Margaret. This, of course, ended in colossal, crushing failure. Esmeralda has been preparing to wage a crusade against magical creatures for years now, Adalina had only provided her with the perfect excuse to do what she was planning to do anyways. No matter how high-level a creature a revenant is, against legions of magic-wielding soldiers specifically trained to hunt down and exterminate magical creatures, a lone undead was no match, especially a newborn without full control of her powers yet. For all her efforts, Elizabeth never even got near Esmeralda's quarters, only managing to kill 20 or so guards before she came face to face with a full squad of Ironclaw warriors that overpowered and nearly killed her easily, forcing her to retreat from the scene carrying away her own severed arm (that would be reattached at a later time).

After her first spectacular failure Elizabeth realized that subtlety and patience would be required. She had all the time in the world now, eventually Esmeralda would grow weak or careless while she wold only become stronger with each passing year. She would wait until opportunity showed itself before personally lopping off the bitch queen's head. She fled to house Grey, changed her name and petitioned them for sanctuary from the ensuing war on magic. Ever since then she has been biding her time, aiding whatever resistance movement she came across in striking blows to the establishment set by the red queen.

Skills and Abilities -

>Death Scythe Mastery: As a revenant, one of her basic abilities is to summon her own death scythe at will, a death scythe being a magical weapon of the Revenants used to forcefully reap the souls of the living from their bodies. Anyone killed by elizabeth's scythe will have their soul bound to the scythe rather than freed to move on to the next world, at that point Elizabeth can either consume the souls for sustenance or use them to power her death magic.

>Death Magic: otherwise known as necromancy, death magic is the art of controlling the forces beyond the veil. Revenants can all use death magic but their proficiency varies with age, power, and skill. Elizabeth can summon bones from the ground to form into skeleton servants to do her bidding with just her own power, but true death magic requires souls to cast. Once she has used her Death Scythe to harvest the souls of her eneies, she can then use those souls to do a myrad of things such as implanting them into her skeleton golems in order to turn them into skeleton warriors (different in that now they have their own power source and can move around and follow basic instructions without Elizabeth needing to directly puppeteer them with magic), corrupt the souls and force them back into their bodies in order to create ghouls bound to her command, Twist the souls together to form Legion demons, summon the ghosts of the men she's killed to either obtain information from them or use them as unwilling scouts, weave the tortured souls together to create powerful hexes or turn the souls into pure energy and fire them as magical attacks. Of course casting Death magic, even when using souls, depletes her own power reserves, so he must make sure to consume some of the souls she harvests regularly so that she doesn't bottom out and end up dying. The more powerful a spell, the more of her energy is drained.

>Undead Heirarchy: Not so much a skill as a trait, Revenants are only outclassed by Litches a far as undead go, so unless a litch or more powerful revenant is in the area, any undead in the area should obey Elizabeth's command.

Weapons and Arsenal -

>Death Scythe (pictured above):
Elizabeth's personal death scythe that she can summon to and banish from her hands at any time she desires it. It is not only her primary melee weapon, but also crucial to her death magic as it provides her with teh souls required to cast the higher-end spells. It is technically unbreakable, being a manifestation of her own power as a revenant given form, rather than a true physical weapon. This being said however, weapons with a strong dominance over dark and undead energies can weaken the weapon, blunting it's usually razor sharp edge, or even 'break' it and dispel it from her hands (typically only weapons wreathes in high-level holy magic could accomplish this). it won't be permanently broken, of course, Elizabeth could re-materialize it after recovering her power, but it would leave her pretty damn defenceless for about a day.

Other -

[Buio DiAngelo]

Disgaea - I Swear I'll Become a Main Character!

So here's the deal. Being an NPC sucks ass. No one ever remembers your name, you're hardly in any cut scenes, no one pays attention to anything you say, you constantly get the shittiest field assignments in battle, aren't even allowed to have your own special moves OR your own face, and are generally reduced to being fodder for the main characters to beat up over and over and over again as they power level themselves and their party in order to face their next boss! If, IF, you're lucky, you get to be picked up by the Main Characters' party, where you have a slightly LESS likely chance of being used as cannon fodder for the 'important' characters to use before THEY go on to defeat overlords and stupid human heroes and reap ALL the credit and glory. And god help you if you get hired to work as a mob for a Boss Character.

Enter Fritz and Co. Dark Court Mercenaries; a group of demon mercenaries for hire (both of the 'humanoid' and 'monster' variety) who contract themselves out to anyone willing to pay the HL required for their services. What makes them different from regular mob monsters though is that they have a plan and a goal. While the motives of each individual member vary, they are united in their rejection of their status as 'regular NPCs'. As god and hell are their witnesses, they WILL become Main Characters Or(read: 'and most likely will') die(several times) trying!

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so yeah, it;s a Disgaea RP where we play as completely regular NPCs trying to become main characters. We'll all be part of Fritz and Co., at first picking up odd jobs here and there while looking for clues as to how to become legitimate main characters, eventually getting used, abused and sent on wild goose chases for the amusement of others, and maybe, just maybe, achieving their goal at the end (but probably not).